A special machine does the stamping of coins to make them genuine. People who counterfeit coins are well trained and have the capacity to manipulate their duplication - especially those rare coins which have high value among collectors. The most common procedure used in counterfeiting is that they p

If you are like many coin collectors you probably have a few old “mystery” coins laying around in your collection. And by mystery coins, I am referring to coins that are not easily identified. These old coins can be very hard to identify and grade if you don’t even have a clue what the coin/coins ar

Finally the time comes when you need to find a local coin dealer. This could be because you have some coins that you want to learn more about, or how much they are worth, or you might want to sell what you have or even buy some new coins for your collection.

So, you feel it´s time to sell your long-time coin collection, or you might have inherited a collection and you know nothing about coins and you would like to sell them. As with the sale of anything, you would like to make sure you get a fair price. Sounds simple enough, right?

Many people would like to start a coin collection for their children or grandchildren but do not know how or where to start. Before you decide to start collecting coins on behalf of your kids or grandkids, you need to take a moment to consider a couple of things.

Numismatics or coin collecting started to catch on in the United States in the mid-1800s. In the beginning there probably weren’t more than a dozen or so serious collectors of coins in what was the U.S. at the time.

There are collectors that specifically find classic editions of coins that existed during the period from 1892 to 1954. These coins have marked events or may signify the work of royalty during that period. There are those collectors that prefer the modern series that are very distinct as well.